十月しぐれの雨に濡れつつか
君が行くらむ宿か借るらむ
君が行くらむ宿か借るらむ
- Roma-ji
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Kamunazuki shigure no ame ni nuretsutsu ka kimi ga yukuramu yado ka karuramu
- English Translation
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In the tenth month's
cold and fitful autumn rain,
are you getting wet
as you travel on, my love,
or sheltering at an inn
- Meaning
- In the passing showers of the tenth month, are you traveling on, getting soaked, or have you found an inn to shelter in?
- Commentary
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Book Twelve Dialogue Poems 3213
Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Dialogue Poems"
A woman worries about her lover on his journey, wondering whether he is traveling on, soaked by the tenth month's showers, or has found an inn. With the man's reply in the next poem, it forms a question-and-answer pair.
The poet is unknown. Book Twelve, titled the second part of "Love Poems Exchanged Old and New," gathers love poems by people whose names have not come down to us, arranged by category.
Line one, "kamunazuki," is the tenth lunar month, read "kamunazuki" in the kana line. The next poem answers with the same opening.
Line two, "shigure no ame ni," means "in the passing showers" of late autumn and early winter.
Line three, "nuretsutsu ka," means "getting soaked?", with "ka" a question.
Line four, "kimi ga yukuramu," means "are you traveling on," and the poem pauses here.
Line five, "yado ka karuramu," means "or are you borrowing lodging?", pairing with line four.
- Author
- Unknown
- Source
- Manyoshu
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